Is there a shape of an animal or is there a writing?
Ludovilk Myers’s visual repertoire is changing constantly from concrete organic shapes to writing. Sometimes image and lettering even superimpose or merge to one. Ilk’s artistic practice has developed from a rather concrete reflection on everyday life to a more abstract cosmology. As an enthusiast of black metal music, Warhammer video games, horror movies, he surprisingly enough adores old Walt Disney cartoons of the 1930s, like Mickey Mouse’s Steamboat Willie or The Skeleton Dance.
Through the abstraction of his daily interests and surroundings the artist creates compositions rich in structures and textures. The finely painted and quite various structures of the different layers and single elements of the composition, create a suspenseful interplay for the viewer. The soft transitions and contrasts render the images extremely multi-layered and elegant. Ilk plays within the combination of every day imagery as well as lettering and merges different visual languages and a friendly pastel-color palette to his own universe.
„ The funny thing is that carpets should be laid on the floor, but here they hang on walls. “
Ilk, 2019
The series Carpets is an evolution of his three dimensional vases to two dimensional rugs. Also instead of placing rugs, as everyday item on the floor, in his opinion they deserve a place on the wall. The pictorial language as well as its symmetrical composition of the painted carpets strongly remind typical native or indigenous arts. The utilization of daily and profane elements in artistic expression as well as the importance of culture and ethnology is related to tribal and folk art. Unique and powerful originality is not stifled by education, socialization or even institutionalization.
Ludovilk Myers’s symbolic language merges elements of his daily life and his personal interests, which gives his artworks an organic yet graphic, surrealistic and sometimes psychedelic aesthetic. Ilk’s beautiful, surreal and unique world of eclecticism cannot be missed!
Tania Di Brita
Artworks
Av. de Beauregard 1
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
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